Emergency services have also put out a renewed appeal for people not to call 112 unless it really is an emergency. And no, that doesn't mean when you have run out of cigarettes.

"Some are simply prank calls, and they have a tendency to crop up when people are not quite sober and then it becomes pure crazy talk," Ronald Krantz of the SOS Alarm Centre's press office told the Expressen newspaper.

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